Internships

Each year Valpo Sociology and criminology students are encouraged to participate in any one of a broad number of internship opportunities. For information on past internships click here.

Sociology & criminology Faculty at Valpo

Dawn Jeglum Bartusch, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology and CriminologyBiographical Information:

“I am delighted to be back at Valparaiso University, where I earned my undergraduate degree. I truly enjoy the opportunities for interaction and involvement with students that teaching here offers. My constant goal as a teacher is to challenge students’ taken-for-granted assumptions about the social world, and to encourage them to ‘think sociologically’ about the world and their places in it.”

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology
212 Huegli Hall
Phone: 219-464-6142

Degrees:
Ph.D. - 1998, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
M.S. - 1989, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.A. - 1987, College of Arts and Sciences, Valparaiso University (Major: Sociology/Criminal Justice)

Publications:
Burfeind, James W. and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. Forthcoming in Summer 2005. Essentials of Delinquency: Integrating Theory and Research. (A juvenile delinquency textbook published by Jones and Bartlett Publshers.)

Sampson, Robert J. and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. 1998. "Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance: The Neighborhood Context of Racial Differences." Law and Society Review 32:777-804.

Bartusch, Dawn R. Jeglum, Donald R. Lynam, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1997. "Is Age Important? Testing a General Versus a Developmental Theory of Antisocial Behavior." Criminology 35:13-48.

Bartusch, Dawn R. Jeglum and Ross L. Matsueda. 1996. "Gender, Reflected Appraisals, and Labeling: A Cross-Group Test of an Interactionist Theory of Delinquency." Social Forces 75:145-176.

White, Jennifer L., Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Dawn Jeglum Bartusch, Douglas J. Needles, and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber. 1994. "Measuring Impulsivity and Examining Its Relationship to Delinquency." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 103:192-205.

Research Interests:

• Testing sociological and social psychological theories of the causes of delinquent behavior.
• Explaining gender differences in involvement in delinquency.
• Examining the influence of the social and neighborhood contexts in which delinquency and crime occur.